Police are hunting a man who masqueraded as a male nurse and robbed an elderly patient

Police are hunting a man who masqueraded as a male nurse and robbed an elderly patient of valuables and cash worth more than 50,000 baht at a hospital here on Sunday. Provincial police chief Pol Col Pudit Norasing said the wanted man robbed a patient at Maharaj hospital.He is described as about 1.65m tall and wearing a male nurse’s uniform when he approached the victim.The hunt follows a complaint by Prakhin Yajati, 56, of Phra Phom district, who said she was robbed by the suspect.
The woman said she developed a headache and chest pains and was taken to the hospital on Sunday. After admission she was taken for an X-ray in a building behind the out-patients section, where her grandchildren were waiting for her.
While she was waiting outside the X-ray room, a man wearing a white uniform similar to that worn by male nurses asked her to inhale from a cotton ball. The fumes made her drowsy.The man then told her to keep still while he removed her gold necklace weighing three baht, a gold-framed Buddhist amulet, two gold rings, each weighing 25 satang or one quarter of a one-baht weight, a gold bracelet weighing one baht and 4,300 baht in cash.She said she initially thought the man was a hospital worker, but became suspicious after he removed her valuables and then quickly departed.
When she was taken into the X-ray room by a female nurse, she told the nurse about the incident. The nurse immediately alerted police.Hospital staff said they had footage of the suspect taken from a security surveillance camera.